This is a reaction to a post by the same title on the Grumpy Wizard blog. I know where I get my conversation in any case. But all the points the Grumpy Wizard makes need to be considered. I don’t care about D&D and Pathfinder. I don’t even care for the old editions. If at all, I care about the problems you ran into and your solutions at the table: techniques, procedures, house rules.
I also don’t care for product announcements or read-through reviews. I also don’t care about the details of session reports. I care about the in-between: what have you used or made for use at the table, what can you say about it, did it work, what would do differently.
Given these peculiarities, I find my conversation on Discord – on small servers with a dozen active people, no more, and we mostly care about the games we play with each other; or on the fediverse with an account that follows a lot of people from tabletop.social and dice.camp (or rollenspiel.social and pnpde.social, if you speak German). These sites are all a bit like early Twitter except you can follow people on compatible servers, too.
There are similar sites that are bit a like Reddit, but you can also follow people on other servers – but I was never very active on Reddit and so they don’t appeal much to me.
I guess if I were to look for forums, I’d go back to old haunts: EN World, ODD74, or whatever flavour you preferred back then.
Anyway, when I post stuff that got started because of something I heard or somebody I spoke to, I try to link to their social media profiles or blogs so that you can check them out and maybe follow them, too.
I sometimes wish there was more conversation to be found on IRC and Usenet. But that basically requires people love both role-playing games and old tech. It’s rare.
And then there’s what the Grumpy Wizard also said: So many things have been discussed for so long, I just don’t care about the conversation any more. Ascending or descending armour class? 6 mile hex? I no longer care.
I guess I’m still into blogs. 😄
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